Back to fun … well, don’t get out much, so methinks metype of fun. Enjoy! Or not. Err’body got choices. 1. No only child has ever been a US president. 2. There are around 2,000 islands in the Caribbean but only 2-percent are populated by humans. (Time to move!) 3. The sunflower spiral follows the …
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Delightful Foolery – Part Trois
Modern world can always use a little more levity, thus ergo bit of silly to share … must say enjoy the random nonsense, like candy for the brain. Empty of value, but oh-so satisfying. Peruse! 1. Detroit is north of Canada. 2. Dogs understand about 100 words. (whereas cats would never deign to speak the …
Fascinating Nonsense, Part Deux
That last one was a bit heavy … little levity never hurts. Well, maybe a bit but it’s only a … papercut (BWAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHA stop me) Back to the 2024 calendar of some interesting (maybe, maybe meh) nonsense … enjoy useless facts for today! 1. The majority of the human brain is fat. (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA explains …
Fascinating Nonsense
Bought a 2024 TIL calendar and never actually got a chance to enjoy the random WTFs throughout, thought be nice to share. So here: have some useless facts. Very welcome. 1. Corn will always have an even number of rows on each cob. (How can they know all the corn?) 2. The king of hearts …
Brilliant Shrike
Still gnawing away at Mr. Ellison’s anthology, and oh my goodness is he good. “Mefisto in Onyx” is easily one of the best shortish stories methinks meeyes have ever glazed. Truly good. And it’s obvious no wonder why not more popular. Brown eyes outcrafting blue is not a popular trope. Not here. Not ever. Language is …
“Pretty Maggie MoneyEyes” … Hey Harlan!
There is a young woman from South Carolina who blinded herself by wrenching her eyes from her head during a methfit … thought she needed to do that to, dunno, save / somebody / and apparently it took seven other adults to hold her down in the ER. Just say no, indeed. To her credit …
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Deep, Deep Dive; or, Two Moons Underground
Anybody else remember Herve Villachaize as Tattoo? “Da plane, Boss! Da plane!” That was a stupidly fun show. Couldn’t air in this age of outraged wokeness … someone would have gotten pissy that a little person wasn’t cast as Mr. Rourke, kind of like Snow White’s DEI seven dwarves (they didn’t look like that) … …
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In the Paint
Don’t read many of the classics … should, but shoulda/coulda/woulda, didn’t/won’t/can’t … all know that drill. Anyhoo, dunno why but decided to crack open Oscar Wilde’s magnum opus / opus arrogantia and see what there was to see. The homoeroticism is so very slaaaay qeeen, not very subtle was Mr. Wilde. But those who know him …
Law #17 – Mind Games
In 1972, U.S. chess prodigy Bobby Fischer and Boris Spasskey, the chess camp from the-then Soviet Union, were set to compete in a tournament held in Iceland, but Bobby decided to become a problem instead. The two men had met in other tournaments, with Spasskey beating Fischer handily in each match. At the tournament set …
Law #16 – Absence Makes the Power Get Stronger
Most folks have that one friend, the one who puts in the occasional appearance, rarely participates in group chats, infrequently attends parties, gatherings, other social events. Somehow, rather than alienating the others, the very inaccessibility, the remoteness, the mystery, draws that person deeper within to the friendship circle. With a brutally iron hand, during the …
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